And repulsively arrogant. I am sure there was at least one word you were unfamiliar with enough to look up. If there wasn't, you haven't been paying attention to the game to begin with.

The one that comes to mind for myself was "anathema." For a long while, I just thought it was a name. Until I read about it several years ago in a thread of commonly mispronounced words in WoW. When I heard the proper pronunciation it just sort of hit me that it really didn't sound like "just a name" anymore.

It's not really repulsively arrogant....there shouldn't any particulalry confusing / unfamiliar words used in WoW if you are a native English speaker and have had some form of decent education

I learned words such as "Elite", "Loot" , "Buckler" , "Shiv" , "Fortitude" , "Ore" , "Vein"(Minining Wise), "Smelt" , "Chastise" and the list goes on. Sure you might say these words are simple, but I was only 10 and English isn't my first language. Spaniard/Italian here and moved to U.S. in Middle School, my english was better than many of my grade thanks to World of Warcraft.

Although I've probably learned a ton I can't recall offhand, there was one item that taught me two: Gloaming Sark. It's an actual item that drops off Halion. I thought they were just making up words...but they're real.

"Gloaming" is basically just another way to say "twilight"...it means "the time after sunset and before dark", and "sark" is the scottish word for "shirt", apparently. So Gloaming Sark means "Twilight Shirt".

I'm not sure I've heard any words in WoW that I haven't heard before, but I have perhaps not known exactly what some of them really mean, and seeing them in game has made me look them up, so it has certainly improved my knowledege of certain words

While thinking about this thread, and some comments a user made about pronunciation of certain words, it made me have a quick google and I found this site http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?wor...&submit=Submit quite handy actually and makes you realise how you've been pronouncing certain words rather strangely for years haha.

But I thought, wouldn't it be awesome if Blizzard did a similar website for Azerothian words, *Talking Dictionary of Azerothian Pronunciation* I would love that For years I thought of Tyrande as Tie rand (god knows why) until I realised it was Ti ran day Would love Blizz to do something like this

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Originally Posted by Flaks

Ecclesiastical. I still can't pronouce it but I was able to kind of sort of figure out what it means because it was a pally plate chest piece from tBC.

We were eating dinner for a friend's birthday and he spilled sauce all over his rice; it was completely submerged and disgusting looking. I asked him, "Are you going to eat that befouled rice?" We both instantly thought of the Befouled Terrace from the Ahn'kahet instance and cracked up laughing like idiots while everyone around us wondered what the hell was going on.

I can't remember any new words i learned in wow, mainly because i played many computer RPG's before (baldur's gates, icewind dales, diablo etc.) that had same words all over. But... if there's one word i'm always happy to see, it's CRETIN.

Anyway, as a non-english speaker, it's always disturbing to see english words (or npc names) that are close to some profanity words in your own language...

Best example is R. E. Howards fictionary character "Kull of Atlantis" as "kulli" means dick in Finnish language. So, "i pray for your son kull" is translated to "rukoilen poikasi kullin puolesta" and if you translate that sentece back to english, it becames "i pray for your son's dick" ehh... That's why they changed it to "Kall of Atlantis" in old translated novels...